From today’s PARADE Magazine newpaper insert:

1 – “Suffering from seasonal allergies? How To Stop The Sneezing”, an article by one of my favorite sensibly-minded general family doctors, Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld. In it he mentions Four Ways to Help Allergies, among which is to try to avoid certain raw foods — like apples, pears and carrots –which contain a protein that resembles pollen and causes a reaction in people who have pollen allergies.
2 – “How To Jump-Start your Diet, Exercise alone won’t take off the weight”, an article by Michael O’Shea that makes these easy-to-do suggestions:
Trade your morning cereal for a bowl of hot oatmeal.
Eat an apple as a snack – it makes you feel full.
Make these easy food substitutions: Give up white bread for rye or pumpernickel. Trade chick peas for rice. Use lentils instead of pasta, plain popcorn instead of pretzels, sweet potatoes for white potatoes, apples for watermelon (too much sugar), strawberries for dates, and yogurt for ice cream.
For more information on these articles, go to parade.com.

Healthy eating,
Marianne